Articles by Andrew Reynolds

Everyone has a favourite Doctor and mine - just for his honesty, his fairness and his ability to not notice the Master's awful, awful disguises/anagrams (Sir Gilles Estram!?!) - has to be the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison. The stories didn’t serve him as well as his acting served those stories.

The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario, Canada is one of the largest salt mines in the world and yet it would struggle to haul the almighty pinch of salt needed for the news that Michael Jackson was apparently considered for the lead role in a proposed Doctor Who movie during the eighties, a new…

BBC Radio 2 is to produce a brand new documentary entitled Who is the Doctor? just in time for the show’s 50th anniversary. Apparently the 90 min documentary will air on Thursday 21st November just two days before the big day itself. Other Doctor Who documentaries broadcast by the station have included Who on Who?…

Want to learn how creative bods behind Vivid Sydney managed to dazzle the crowds gathered at their goosebump-inducing 3D lightshow in New South Wales, Australia? This clip showcases the work that went into turning the grand façade of Customs House into a humongous screen for a 7m tall 3D adventure featuring the Doctor, the TARDIS…

Flicks and the City could not rest, Watson, no, they could not sit in their chairs if they thought for a second that such a man as Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. So, microphone in hand, they took the next hansom to the premiere of Sam Mendes adaptation of Charlie and the…

Go on admitted it, you were fooled. Or at least you wanted to be fooled. You wanted to believe that this was it, the moment that the anniversary cake was wheeled out, candles ablaze. Alas it turned out to be a fan made labour of love, but that didn’t stop some sites from heralding it…

If just under a quarter of the four thousand internet posts analysed by the sinister sounding company Crimson Hexagon are to be believed then the Doctor may get his wish and finally be ginger. According to the data collected by the NSA social media analytics provider ForSight platform fans have taken to social media sites…

Ruling himself out of contention for the role of the Twelfth Doctor, Recce Shearsmith has said he would ‘love’ to follow up his Troughton role with an appearance in Doctor Who itself. Recce recently played the Second Doctor in the BBC docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time – written by fellow League of Gentleman…